I am a Chartered Psychologist with a multidisciplinary background including a PhD in Psychology, an MSc in Human Factors and a BSc in Applied Biology. I joined Aston University in October 2008, having spent the previous ten years working in the Civil Service as an HM Inspector of Health and Safety, including two years as a Specialist Inspector of Human Factors.

My current position as a post-doctoral researcher is funded by an EU research project grant '664367/FOCUS'. The aim of this project is to reduce the burden of frailty in Europe by developing methods and tools to assist with the early diagnosis, screening and management of frailty.

Innovate UK and the Economic and Social Research Council: Development of a resilience tool to improve quality of life and wellbeing for older adults. KTP project £122,886 in partnership with ExtraCare, a charitable trust that offers a modern alternative to nursing and care homes. Co-I with Prof. C. Holland

Holland, C., Gwyther, H., Tritter, J., Griffiths, H. and Nabney, I. (2017) Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing. Academic Evaluation of the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme. Report submitted to the Economic and Social Research Council, April 2017.

Gwyther, H., Cooke, R., Shaw, R., Marcucci, M., Cano, A and Holland, C (2017). Perceptions and experiences of frailty interventions. Quantitative and qualitative results from a survey of partners within the European Innovation Partnership for Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA). Deliverable to European Union for CHAFEA funded FOCUS project. (http://focus-aha.eu/en/home).

Gwyther, H., Marcucci, M., Cano, A., Cooke, R and Holland, C. (2017) Modelling a set of significant predictors of outcome health and social care needs and use in the frame of frailty, outcome costs of that health and social care use together with projected impact of changes in frailty as a result of intervention. Deliverable to European Union for FOCUS project. Paper in development.